Immigration arrests and deportations in Nashville
ICE arrest, detention and deportation records for Metro Nashville, January 2023 through early August 2026, from the Deportation Data Project. How many people ICE arrested, what happened to them, where they were held and the countries they were deported to.
Arrests in Nashville
Immigration arrests in Nashville climbed through Trump's second term
Monthly ICE arrests in Davidson County, Jan. 2023 to July 2026.
Includes every ICE arrest record, with or without a later detention stay.
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What happened to the people ICE arrested in Nashville each month
Same arrests as the chart above, by month of arrest and the outcome of the detention stay that followed. Status as of Aug. 5, 2026; recent months still have many open cases.
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287(g) arrests are rising statewide, but almost none are in Nashville
Arrests made through 287(g) agreements, in which local police or sheriffs make immigration arrests on ICE's behalf. Davidson County records show 5 such arrests, all in 2026.
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Deportations of people arrested in each Tennessee county
County of arrest, from the arrest city in ICE's records (or the county jail where ICE logged the arrest when no city is recorded). Hover or tap a county for its count.
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Where people were deported to
Countries of citizenship of people arrested in Nashville and deported
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Deportations by country over time
Deportations of people arrested in Nashville, by quarter the person was removed, for the five most common countries. All panels share one scale.
Early 2023 undercounts, because only people arrested from Jan. 2023 on are included. Ends June 2026; the data stops Aug. 5.
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Other Nashville angles in this data
Arrests by whether the person already had a deportation order when ICE picked them up. A reinstated order means the person had been deported before and returned.
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How long people had lived in the U.S. before arrest
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About this data
Source: ICE arrest and detention records obtained by the Deportation Data Project (UC Berkeley and UCLA) through FOIA litigation. The file runs from Oct. 1, 2022 through Aug. 5, 2026; this page starts in Jan. 2023. The monthly charts stop at July 2026, the last full month. Yearly totals for 2026 include Aug. 1–5.
Nashville means arrests in Tennessee whose arrest city is in Davidson County: Nashville and North Nashville (including misspellings), Antioch, Madison, Hermitage, Goodlettsville, Oak Hill, Old Hickory, Whites Creek, Joelton and "Davidson." This yields Davidson County arrests for Jan. 2025 to Aug. 2026.
The early-2023 records:
Which years each chart covers: Monthly charts begin in Jan. 2023, with the early-2023 records labeled. Charts of all arrests by year begin in 2024, because those records make up most of 2023. Charts that count only people who were deported (countries and the county map) include 2023, because those records never led to detention.
Deported means the person's detention stay ended in removal. Country is the person's country of citizenship as ICE records it.
County map: each Tennessee arrest is assigned to a county using the Census Bureau's list of Tennessee places and their counties, with common misspellings fixed by hand. When no city is recorded, the county jail where ICE logged the arrest is used. About 1% of Tennessee arrests can't be placed. This method counts Davidson County slightly differently from the Nashville definition above, so its totals run a few dozen higher: it also picks up arrests logged at the Davidson County jail with no city, and a few misspelled or satellite-city records.
Prior orders combine ICE's flag for a final order issued before the arrest with case category 16 (reinstated final order). Years in the U.S. run from the recorded entry date to the arrest date; most records have no entry date.
* 2026 counts run through Aug. 5, 2026. Source: Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley and UCLA.